Recent News

Steve Gregory, inventor and founder of the Ram Jack method of foundation repair, will be honored as Entrepreneur of the Year and deliver East Central University’s Leonard Limes Lecture at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 19, in the ECU Foundation Hall of the Chickasaw Business and Conference Center.

Tickets are still on sale for In the Heat of the Night, East Central University’s first featured stage performance of the 2014-2015 Fine Arts Season, set for 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 5, in the Ataloa Theatre of the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

L.A. Theatre Works, with Susan Albert Loewenberg as producing director, is presenting In the Heat of the Night, based on John Ball’s novel by the same name.

This production contains graphic and mature language and is not recommended for all audiences.

The 19th Annual Oklahoma Literary Arts Festival, hosted by the East Central University Department of English and Languages and the Center of Continuing Education and Community Services, is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 6, at the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center as part of the Scissortail Arts Series.

In honor of Native American Heritage month, East Central University will host a screening of Granito: How to Nail a Dictator at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 1, in the Ataloa Theatre of Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

The filmmaker Peter Kinoy will hold a question and answer session following the screening. The screening and question/answer session is free and open to the public.

East Central University’s student organization, 21ST3 (21st Century Students Transforming Teaching with Technology), is hosting a three-day cyber-focused event from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Oct. 28-30 in the Bill S. Cole University Center.

The event, free and open to the public, is being held in conjunction with National Cyber Security Awareness Month (October) and the Department of Homeland Security’s national campaign called Stop.Think.Connect.

For the third straight year, the East Central University Bookstore is sponsoring a book signing for ECU alumna Maxine Neely Davenport at the Golden Tiger Brunch on Saturday, Oct. 25, in ECU Foundation Hall at the Chickasaw Business and Conference Center.

Members of the East Central University Rotaract Club will dress in their craziest Halloween costumes and collect donations for PolioPlus during its annual “Costumes for a Cure” fundraiser on Oct. 29-30.

Costumed members of the ECU Rotaract Club will collect donations from ECU faculty, staff and students.

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